Dubious Distinction Quotes

#1. While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.

Alan Schwarz

#2. the government was in danger of being overthrown. If it had succeeded, it would have earned the dubious distinction of being the very first armed takeover of an elected government in an ex-British colony in the West Indies.

MiddleRoad Publishers

#3. By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Barbara Demick

#4. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.

Eric Alterman

#6. Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#7. Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.

Miranda Kerr

#8. I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

Julian Cope

#9. It would be great to have a little getaway place somewhere hot, maybe down in Mexico, since I love it there. But now that I've banned myself from the sun, I don't know how that will work.

Jennifer Aniston

#10. I like a grizzly look as long as it's maintained. Facial hair requires maintenance; you can't just grow it out and be done with it.

Adrianne Palicki

#11. I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. He said 'sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.'

Aaron Lewis

#12. In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

Peter Rollins

#13. Before one can know what is right and wrong,
he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

Billy Graham

#14. Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's not permit our babies of the future to be polluted before they are even born.

Louise Slaughter

#15. The peak of being a fan is a hotdog and a beer and a seat at the game. There's nothing above that. Nothing above it.

Jerry Seinfeld

#16. Marines - you beat them down and they come back for more.

Chris Kyle

#17. The one thing I didn't do that was kind of controversial was go work for a daily paper, because I didn't like that kind of journalism, and I'm glad I didn't because that's the business model that's going totally extinct.

Sarah Lacy

#18. Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils ... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

Bernhard Rust

#19. In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim

Bono

#20. Changing one's personality is as simple as stopping the earth's rotation; changing another's is even harder.

Maximus Freeman

#21. You know what term you don't hear anymore? Arbitrage. The markets have gotten too efficient.

Nelson Peltz